The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21

scenes and places were passed where history had
| been writ in FURNISHED rows of STEEL but
here at 'Bingen. sweet Bingen." every foot
stopped, every heart grew softer and every eye
milder. eve are such stuff as dreams made
of. and is it because to every one. high and low,
educated and uneducated, the titled few and
the nameless many. the dream of the grand
passion has come. that all bending over
him, and listening with aching sobs to tho story
he tells his faithful comrade. "as his lifes blood
| ebbed away Certain it is that Bingen owes
more to Mrs. Norton than to its grapes
Opposite to Bingen on the heights of Neider-
wald stands the great statue "Germania." The
figure is not unlike that of Bartholdi's LIB
erty,' except that "Germania' is sitting on a
throne rather than standing. But she holds the
torch and surrounded with the emblems of the
empires greatness, she keeps die Wacht am
Rhein." No better situation could have been t
found for the symbolic figure 1t commands for"
many miles the whole sweep of the river, andD
can be almost to Mayence. 1t is an ex-
preston of the power and glory OF Germany,
and would seem to command first place in shs4
thought and honor of this people, but so long ass
"Bngen" was in sight, scarcely eye was+
turned toward the statue 1t was only when
desire had been stated with looking at Bingen,
photographing on the mind not only itself but its1
paid to the work of art on the opposite bank
Bingen passed, and the Rhine had told it's
story. All it has to give of song ard legend, Of
beauty and history, ends with the of the
river that shuts Bingen from the sight.
After that. for two hours, the ride
was made between low banks and
through an uninterestng territory. until
the lights of Biebrich and Mayence spoke of rest
in the quaint old town where Gutenberg was
born and where Schiller lived and sung To
the inventor of printing statue by Thorwald-
sen is erected. and also to the poet, whose
name is given to the square in which it stands.
OF course. there is old cathedral here; there
are old cathedras everywhere, full of dead
mems bones, and musty with the mold of CEN
turtles. l visited this one, but do not recall
whether it boosted of St Peters staff or not
It had been an impression that Peter fish,
erman, but he must have been a staff maker to
Judge from the number of his slaves that are ex-
hibited relics to confirm the faith of the cred
ulous and to arouse the sneers of the skeptical.
From Mayence 1 went to Worms for the rur.
pose of seeing the Luther monument, which is
the only thing of interest in the town, save the
cathedral in which the great reformer met tho
Diet, and deied the temporal and spiritual
power Of papacy. The monument is quadraue-
ular in shape, with one open side, into which
you pass TO the steps OF the inner PEDESTAL
upon which the statue of Luther stands. The
outer walls are built to resemble fortress. at
the bastion ends of which bronze figures Of
about Luther, and just below him. those Of
Peter Waldus tFrench), John Wickiiffe Eng
lishl, Savonaroa. {ltaliaul, and John Huss. (Bo-
hemian), who were the mighty spirits of religious
freedom, of which the Luther reformation was
the flower and fruit. On the four sides of the
pediment medallion scenes in Luther's life
the mailing of the theses to the gate of the
Wittenburg church, his marriage, etc., and
above quotations from his sermons speeches,
and in front the special .'Hier stehe Ich:
Ich kann NIGHT anders. Got hefe mir-Amenl"
The figure of Luther with outstretched
arms, utterng the words quoted,
is strong and powerful There IS
a reproduction of it in front of the Lutheran
Church at Washington, cast from the same
-natrix, I believe Worms. 1 apprehend has
changed and is changing from what it was four
hundred years ago. but the cathedral and tho
square around it remain about the same as when
Luther into the town to face the Diet
though all the tiles the roofs of the houses
devils. Tt a curious reflection upon
the recompenses and revenges of history to
stand before this splendid monument and to see
in the face of of the houses tablet stating
stayed when he came to inaugurate the statue
in honor of the man against whom the force Of
church and state had been exertsd in vain.
From Worms to Heidelberg is a short and
pleasant ride. The famous old university town
Is built upon a ledge of mountain fringed by the
Black Forest. and in the narrow gorge of the
Neckar. just where it energies into the Rhine
plains, which river it joins at Mannheim. almost
within sight, although twenty miles away. The
old castle of Heidelberg is enc Of the finest
ruins of Europe, AM the Schloss park, well wood.
ed with ancient trees, about some of which
Irvine ivy hundred years old. with trunk az
thick mans leg. This park contains a rare
collection of trees, the botanical names of which
are attached to them. The eternal fitness Of
things will never be reached until Dr.. Brayton
comes to Heidelberg. He could write about the
castle and forest for the balance of his natural
life. The great is in the cellar of the castle
It is shown by intelligent woman, who evil
IDENTITY does not know that there is bigger
barrel in Toledo, and did not pjure her amour
propre by telling her. This one is big enough,
and it is older than the Toledo one anyhow. !
was just week too late to the illuminating
of the castle aud park in honor Of the fve-hun.
dredth anniversary of the founding of the uni
versity. The university buildings are right II
the heart of the city. There six of them.
all unprotentlOu6. the ualu oHo - tnTcc etoFio0
in height, with hipped roof. in which there are
a number of little dormer windows. The more
modern buildings the chemical laboratory,
the physiological school, and the botanical, the
latter with fine gardens. The library is con-
tanned in two-story building. just opposits tho
ball 1t is vacation now, and there is not
much stir about the university buildings. The
building in which students used to fight their
duels and in which now and then fools still in
dulge, is across the Neckar, reached in a few
minutes over a stone bridge, upon which stands
a monument to Frederick Carl, the enlightened
Elector, to whom Baden owes much and Heidel-